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Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by SpencerLewis(m): 6:56pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
dominique:The worst are the so called pastors or prophets. These people have shown me pepper in my centre. Now if u come with your ' I am a man if God' rush, I will send u away to a 3° centre |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by edoairways: 7:00pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
SmartyPants:We have that already but it is not effective (NHIS) 1 Like |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by mctfopt: 7:01pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Nigeria hospitals are not charity organisation. No matter how broke you are, you can never walk into a bank and ask for free money. Most people don't want to pay hospitals for services rendered. They'll promise to pay when the problem is holding them on the jugular and try to abscond the next moment it is fixed. I do not blame hospitals that refuse treatment until payment, I only wish there is a way to ensure the patient is covered (a sort of insurance that will pay the hospital) for the basic first aid and nothing more until payment is done. Every worker deserves their wages, and so it shouldn't be any different with the hospitals. What I don't really like is the turning away of patients, by our Federal Medical Centers, for lack of bed space, the government should ensure that this rarely happens. 2 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by blackboy(m): 7:04pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Bad. But what culture do Nigerians have that there is no trust and wickedness 1 Like |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by AreaFada2: 7:05pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Dr Musa say e nor go do again. Jetting out to Venezuela. Last last given half a chance most people Na scam for 9ja. In particular poverty affects people's moral fibre badly. They feel they deserve to benefit from those who they believe are better off. It's the same fundamental thinking of armed robbers, kidnappers, etc. They only just manifest at different levels of wickedness. 2 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Kingsleyphy(m): 7:08pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
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Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Ekpekus(m): 7:09pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Basic123:Exactly.. Maybe after taking herbs or visiting prayer house and they will want the super hero doctor to now perform magic of resurrection.. 3 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Hangulsaram: 7:09pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
midnighter:Hey! How are you? |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by philip0906(m): 7:09pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Sterope:My comment was purely for those who can relate to the grave incompetency not those who can't even afford basic healthcare |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by philip0906(m): 7:14pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Emmaxy9:Your first point is rubbish! Taking about me studying medicine and crap! Doctors are not running charity, they're paid for their jobs. So your point is baseless. Your other vociferations validate my point. Nigerian doctors are a bunch of vain and senile peeps who are only interested in the prestige their job affords them, the supposed respect they get from poor people who see them as demi gods, rather than getting their jobs done. They only want to rant about how many years they spent in school, how intelligent they think they are but can't even perform basic diagnosis. Your lots are sending people to their Early grave. Only God knows how many souls you've killed due to gross incompetence and negligence. Nonsense! 1 Like |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by KosiGee(m): 7:16pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
helpee: While you heap blames on the patient, remember not to absolve the society and environment that made it hard for him to access affordable, safe and effective health care. Advanced economies that you mentioned would have some healthcare insurances for their citizens. In the Uk which I think has the best healthcare system in the world, every citizen is registered with a general practitioner meaning that everybody irrespective of your economic or social class would have a doctor and access to healthcare. I know someone with a genetic abnormality who would’ve had it very rough were this individual to be in Nigeria but instead receives the best medical care possible without paying for it. Blame the system and structure in place that robs people of adequate medical care. How much is the average civil servant getting a month to afford a CT scan? 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by philip0906(m): 7:17pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
HBB1:This is a valid submission. While I did admit in my first post, that outside the shores of Nigeria, Nigerian doctors perform the truth is back home, they see themselves as demi gods. There are simple diagnosis that doesn't even require out of the world equipments that your Nigerian doctors back home, cannot perform. They only want to be called doctors and seen as Albert Einsteins. 3 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by AreaFada2: 7:18pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
philip0906:Dude doctors are valued everywhere. Almost like gods in a place like India. Doctors of both genders are premium spouse materials in India. A society that values status. They perform abroad because working conditions are quite decent. Pay is not too bad either. Nigeria is a disorganised society so lots of things are upside down. Including people's mentality. You will only know if you have seen both sides. If you are in a system that works you automatically become part of it. Simple. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by philip0906(m): 7:22pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
AreaFada2:I don't have any problem with that. Since they work in a senile and incompetent environment, they should be seen as incompetent dolts! 2 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Akechukwuka: 7:28pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Some people are heartless. How could they abscond from their after service, especially in a service of human life. 1 Like |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Nobody: 7:30pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
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Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Jaqenhghar: 7:33pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Niggerians are useless generally but that is not an excuse to kill people. If the condition of the work no do you leave the job. UK and Canada are looking for you 1 Like |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Yonce(f): 7:36pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
philip0906: This gross generalization is very unfair. Maybe you lost a loved one to misconduct by a doctor but that's just one doctor. There's still some good highly competent doctors who still give as much as they can. And sometimes the Nigerians who travel across the pond and beyond still get treated by Nigerian doctors who've migrated overseas. If thousands of Nigerians die due to negligence of doctors, Millions are saved by the actions of doctors. 3 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by HBB1(m): 7:36pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
KosiGee: Cost of admission daily in the NHS is about 800 pounds ( it was 600-800 pounds some years back). If you call for an ambulance, 800 pounds... A friend had to pay for an MRI once (since his NHS hospital's own was down)-- 950 pounds! The State pays for all this! The doctor doesn't have to rack his brain on what tests to do or not do ( because of his cheap patients). You can do MRIs, HRCTs, CTPAs (basic things in oyibo land)-- not just malaria and typhoid! People won't even pay for a bloody CRP in Nigeria, so the Doctor continues treating malaria and typhoid for someone whose kidneys are fried-- in Kidney failure. If you are prosecuting a war, you don't mind your ammunitions, you fire away-- imagine being a soldier at the war front and counting your bullets. Will you fight like the American Marine? Even though I can't excuse the crass incompetence of the bad eggs, the good Nigerian Doctors and a significant number of them are decent, are counting their bullets. What do the nationals then expect? Miracles? You expect Oyinbo standard at Surulere rates? 5 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by AreaFada2: 7:36pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
philip0906:You are entitled to your opinion. Fact is doctors save lives and reduce much suffering daily. If they had better amenities in Nigeria they would save even more lives and reduce more suffering. My two cents. 1 Like |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Yonce(f): 7:44pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Squillaci: Why does the sentence; "Only the best study medicine" trigger you?? Wouldn't you want the brighest minds to study medicine and handle human life which is one of the most fragile things?? You want "dullards" to study it so you can keep perpetuating the narrative that doctors are dullards? 5 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Sterope(f): 7:47pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
What grave incompetence? Where is your research on that incompetence? You have been acting like everyone hasn't got a story to tell too. Unlike you, many of us also understand that the fault also lies with our government and with us. philip0906: 2 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by philip0906(m): 7:51pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Sterope:You're asking me for research on incompetence from Nigerian doctors when you could have simply done the research yourself? even a simple google search will help you. It's not about having a story, it's about the fact that Nigerian doctors think we all should bow and kiss their feet's even though they don't seem to know their jobs. 1 Like |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Nobody: 8:02pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Yonce:Because I know many morons doing well as doctors today. Actually we need the best brains in the sciences in order to move humanity forward. Not medicine. And then the above average in medicine, law, psychology and other junk professions. The bright ones would figure out early in life that they can't have much impact as doctors, and would aspire for the more exotic professions. 1 Like |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by crackhouse(m): 8:03pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
All I see here are doctors complaining about money money and money. Is that their priority? I thought their priority is to save lives. Useless people. My wife lost her office boss yesterday because of their incompetence... in this case u can't say it's a money issue because the money dey well well even to fly him out of the country but the useless doctors refused to allow his family transfer him to another hospital claiming that they can handle it and now he's dead because of their incompetence. ....and here they are talking about patients that didn't pay as if that's the only encounter they have with their patients in their hospitals. Nonsense!! 4 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Sterope(f): 8:04pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Were you not the one hammering on incompetence? Everyone has a story to tell, this year alone, I have got two for you so I don't need a Google research to know all about the incompetence you speak of. Congratulations! You have just described the attitude of most public servants in Nigeria. philip0906: 1 Like |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by maestroferddi: 8:07pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
sgtponzihater1:What exactly is your point? Society functions smoothly via the synergy of all professions. I think it is dumb trying to justify the senseless uppity of some misguided Nigerian doctors by asserting that they should throw propriety and decorum to the winds because, according to you, there were better than their peers in high school. This attitude of yours is among the reasons Nigerians beat local doctors with stiff rods. 2 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by Pearl543(f): 8:21pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
philip0906: Woah... You amaze me with your post. Being educated doesn't means having sense Sha. It's well with our Doctors. 2 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by philip0906(m): 8:23pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Pearl543:Rubbish! Hopefully, you don't loose your life to a senseless Nigerian doctor! 1 Like |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by googi: 8:26pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
Without reading everything here, people must realize that doctors are people too and they do bleed. I have been hard on physicians especially the new ones bragging about checking out of the country. But please without their slave labor of long hours, no hospital in this world would run smoothly. It is news when man bites dog but not when dog bites man. Doctors have their own frustration with patients too that are not funny especially in Nigeria where relatives and friends expect free treatment not to mention fraudster. Do you know that in United States, the richest country in the world, people die daily for lack of health care and choice. Even when Obamacare gives money to the states to cover more people and expand Medicare, some State governors refused to take it knowing that some people will die. One of the most frustrating thing for Canadian doctors and nurses relocating back to Canada from US is when they watch patients die base on choice of treatment or medication. So, some Nigerian medical doctors make a choice between starving their families to death or no payment no treatment. 2 Likes |
Re: Doctors Share Their Experiences With Nigerian Patients by maestroferddi: 8:32pm On Nov 28, 2019 |
AreaFada2:Granted that the guy went overboard, but the incontestable truth remains that some Nigerian doctors need re-orientation. Medical practice is intrinsically humanitarian else the Hippocratic sworn by doctors will be a spectacle of nullity. Nobody is saying people should get medical service f.o.c but then moderation should be the way to go. Go to some government hospitals and see some doctors fiddling with their smart phones and wasting their time on frivolities when they should use their spare time to update themselves on mordern trends in their profession. It is not every time we should be sounding politically correct... 3 Likes |
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